Hello,

because the backup-soft Amanda can't span large filesystems across
multiple tapes, I'm looking for an alternative.

What other backup-software is recommendable to use under Linux?
Preferring open-source or if there is no alternative, commercial.

Thanks.
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Take a look at Bacula (www.bacula.org)

I am just getting started with it, and it works great. Hands-down my
favorite OpenSource backup solution. (And I have tried _many_)

Works with tapes, autochangers and disk pools.
Has a built-in database, or can use mysql or PostgreSQL, so scalability
is good.
Full client-server, even has a client for Windows.
They have some rudimentary bare-bones recovery utils, they are working
on bootable CD image creation. (If that works, I'm gonna be all over it)

Great documentation, and a friendly mailing list.

You'll never look back. Seriously--give it a try!

(Ignore the suggestions about tar, scripts, rsync and the likes)

Foz

Thorsten Bremer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> because the backup-soft Amanda can't span large filesystems across
> multiple tapes, I'm looking for an alternative.
>
> What other backup-software is recommendable to use under Linux?
> Preferring open-source or if there is no alternative, commercial.
>
> Thanks.

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